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September 24, 2018January 31, 2019 - Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Reading The Cantos

READING THE CANTOS I am not the only person in the United States reading The Cantos. I know because the…

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January 4, 2018February 1, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading

Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2018!

Like every year, there’s much to dread about 2018, and to fight against, but, fortunately there’s much to look forward…

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December 20, 2017January 31, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing

My Year in Reading, 2017

I read two hundred books this year. Crazy, I know. “Suffering” from segmented sleep certainly “helps,” as does “suffering” from…

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November 16, 2017January 31, 2019 - Art, News, Nonfiction, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writing

Barzakh

The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…

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October 18, 2015February 3, 2019 - Books, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

On Names

I go down the 58,022 names, half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke. –from “Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa…

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January 21, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Dante 2020-6: Tower, Tree, Candle, & the Triumph of the Fragile.

The Divine Comedy has its end, after 3X9 spirals rendered in 100 evenly distributed cantos, and it’s about time my…

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January 20, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Dante 2020-5: the Intimate Erases the Monolith.

BIG OTHER, gracious blog, has been letting me post my ideas about Dante’s Divine Comedy.  The basic question: Why should…

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January 16, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Dante 2020-3: Cleansing as Carnival, Tree as Anchor.

Twice in recent days, I’ve posted stages in a developing idea about Dante’s Divine Comedy.  The work is coming up…

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January 13, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Dante 2020-2: Nothing so Claustrophobic as a Castle

A couple of days back, I posted the first of my thoughts about Dante’s Divine Comedy.  With the 700th anniversary…

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November 15, 2010February 23, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Spawn of Stevens

A monster is known by its spawn.  Or that’s one way we know a monster, at least, and few presences…

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